The 12 artists, photographers, and writers of Looking Local are united because their creative practice has a connection to a specific place. For some participants, it is the place they currently call home that informs their work. For others, home is a distant place, somewhere rooted in either the inaccessible past or unknowable future. The inability to return to a place (personally or collectively) is the theme of several works; as are reactions to memory, nostalgia, and dislocation.